Turn your idea into a startup

Stripe Atlas is a powerful, safe, and easy-to-use platform for forming a company. By removing lengthy paperwork, legal complexity, and numerous fees, Stripe Atlas helps you launch your startup from anywhere in the world.

Through our partnership with Startup School, you'll pay just $250 instead of our usual price of $500. You'll also get access to a startup toolkit and special offers on partner services.

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Trusted by founders and investors

Join thousands of founders from more than 140 countries who have formed their companies using Stripe Atlas, with a best-in-class legal structure that’s built for scale. Stripe Atlas companies have raised more than $2 billion in funding.

Access Stripe’s financial tools

Use your Stripe account to access powerful and flexible tools for internet commerce. Stripe’s meticulously designed APIs and unmatched functionality help you create the best possible product for your users.

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Grow and scale with free credits

Every dollar matters when you start your company. Sign up for discounts from our partners, including Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, legal and accounting firms, and more.

Marc Andreessen

Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

We like investing in companies that have been established cleanly and professionally. Atlas is one of the very best ways to do that.

Kat Mañalac

Partner, Y Combinator

We’re delighted to be working with Stripe to make it easier for our international founders to spend more time working on their startup and less time on paperwork.

Elad Gil

Entrepreneur and Investor

Atlas is what top-tier founders are using today.

Sarah Tavel

General Partner, Benchmark

Stripe Atlas is the easy button for forming a company.

Nat Friedman

CEO, GitHub

I will use Atlas for my next company.

Jessica Verrilli

General Partner, GV

Company formation through Stripe Atlas is streamlining the shift toward remote work, helping founders all over the world participate in the opportunities abundant in Silicon Valley.

Daniel Gross

Founder, Pioneer.app

Atlas is the perfect way to graduate your project into a real company.

Get going in about 10 minutes

We guide you through the essentials and handle the rest. Spend 10 minutes filling out a bit of information, and then we’ll create the legal framework for your company.

Form a legal entity

Set up your new company as a C Corporation in the state of Delaware. We’ll create the legal documents, file the paperwork, and apply for your Tax ID number. Our goal is to have you in business within a few days.

Issue stock to founders

Create your company’s initial ownership structure using our tool to generate stock issuance documents with standard terms used by many top startups.

Stripe account

Activate your Stripe account to start accepting payments from customers in 100+ currencies. You can also take advantage of a range of Stripe’s other products, including Billing, Capital, Connect, Corporate Card, and Radar.

A helpful, supportive community

Forming your company with Stripe Atlas grants you automatic access to the Stripe Atlas Community. As a member, you’ll get personalized help and learn best practices.

Special offers on startup services

Receive discounts from our partners, including $5,000 in free credits from Amazon Web Services, $10,000 in free credits from DigitalOcean, and flat-rate packages from vetted providers of legal and tax services.

Trusted by entrepreneurs in more than 140 countries

From New York to New Delhi, thousands of people have started their businesses with Stripe Atlas.

Hourspent headquarters is in Nigeria, but expanding our customer base internationally was our next step. Stripe Atlas was the all-in-one package we needed to form a US presence and grow the business internationally.

Blessing Ijoma

CEO, Hourspent

Stripe Atlas enabled CoinTracker to get incorporated super fast. More importantly, Stripe Atlas continues to provide invaluable startup resources: awesome Q&A opportunities with business leaders and a wonderful startup community. I would incorporate my next company with Atlas without a second thought.

Chandan Lodha

Co-Founder, CoinTracker (YC W18)

Led by Madhuban Kumar, Metafused’s mission is to make data meaningful. Their product applies artificial intelligence to let users know what customers and prospects are going to do next.

Madhuban Kumar

CEO & Co-founder, Metafused

From setting up the company to preparing for Y Combinator, Stripe Atlas has been helpful to Buy Me A Coffee every step of the way. Thanks to Stripe Atlas, we enabled frictionless payments to 25,000 creators in less than six months. I’m not sure we could have done this without them.

Jijo Sunny

CEO & Co-founder, Buy Me A Coffee (YC W19)

Started in Ghana, Tress is a social community for black women to discover and share hairstyle inspiration, information, and tips. Founders Priscilla Hazel, Esther Olatunde, and Cassandra Sarfo participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2017 batch.

Tress (YC W17)

After setting up our corporation, Stripe Atlas has provided continual value to our team through the Stripe Atlas Community. They helped WorkClout get into YC by coaching us through the application and interview process—Stripe Atlas is truly an invaluable service to us.

Arjun Patel

CEO & Co-founder, WorkClout (YC W19)

Stripe Atlas made incorporating Cognition IP easy and fast. Using a tool built specifically to help small, but serious, tech companies gave me confidence. It felt great knowing I was building company foundations suitable for the tech industry and its investors, just by clicking a few buttons.

Bryant Lee

CEO, Cognition IP (YC W18)

What’s the process?

With Stripe Atlas, your company can be set up within days. We help with all the paperwork.

Submit your informationStep 1

Sign your company formation documentsStep 2

Your company is formed in Delaware
Step 3

Receive a tax ID number from the IRSStep 4

Set up your startup

Form a company with Stripe Atlas

We’ll guide you through what’s needed to set up your startup.

Includes

Formation of a C Corporation in Delaware

Delaware state filing fees

Signed documents to establish company bylaws and protect IP

Tool to issue stock to founders

First year of registered agent fees

Tax ID (EIN) filing

Stripe Atlas Community membership

Free templates for post-formation legal needs

$500 $250

setup fee

discounted for applicants who apply through the Startup School partnership

Run your business

After you set up your company using Stripe Atlas, there are separate ongoing costs of running a company that we help you manage.